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Maybe I'm weird but I think France.com belonging to France is the just thing. The last thing we need is giving more rights to squatters.
by fasj82 9y ago
Maybe I'm weird but I think France.com belonging to France is the just thing. The last thing we need is giving more rights to squatters.
- sneak 9y agoIt belongs to a person born there, who registered it and is using it. How is he in any way a squatter?!
- arkades 9y agoRegistered and used it with, apparently, the blessing of the French government for a couple of decades - they were aware of its existence, and worked with him in providing some content, as I understood the article. It's ... nothing at all like cybersquatting. At all.
- fasj82 9y agoI'm not saying this is a squatter.
- josefx 9y agoHe had the blessing until he went for the trademark in Europe. In 2015 France.com didn't exist as trademark, then was registered by France.com Inc and at that point France declared prior use on the word France and related trademarks. They let him use it until he tried to claim it for himself.
- oldcynic 9y agoTaking it from the guy who's spent 20 years building a business on it, with no compensation, is the just thing?
- greglindahl 9y agoSo if I have a US telephone number that spells out FRANCE, it's OK for France to seize it? 1-800-FRA-NCE1 ?
- hokus 9y agono no, the country should be represented by some American. IMHO the only offensive part is how they took so much time to do it. That part is very nasty.